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I confess I have a big box of shit that would be great if put together and helped make my life better in some way... iopeners, palm vii, wireless stuff, CDRs etc
I'd really like to find a reason to put it together and make someone happy. But not sure where to start.

These guys have been putting together old PCs and handing them over to people in need. Wish I had their energy.

Please read THIS sir, and then tell me its just liberal leftists. Don't be fooled, democracy really has left the building.

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I'll tell ya how.

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Is it called squatting if someone purchases a lot of land in Silicon Valley, expecting to sell it for 3x the price in 2 years?

Actually yes it is. Common sense and a little judgement and you realize that. The real estate business is bullshit. As much money as there is in it, its the end user that gets fucked over every time when the house sells for 3x what was paid for it. I'm rather sick of it, its been happening in my neighborhood for years. (ohh, but property values go up up up.. fuck that, I like this neighborhood and do not want to be stuck living with the ultra rich. very few rich geeks will come cuz this is the heart of the biblebelt.)

Is it squatting if someone got into Ultima in the beginning and managed to build a huge castle, something which noone else can do as there's not enough land?

Its a video game, if somebody doesn't like it, go to a different server or play a real game (Rainbow 6 - Rogue Spear: Urban Operations comes to mind, but insert any NON-monthly-fee-ripoff-of-a-game here.)

UO is just a bad idea in the first place. You are paying to play your game. It should be open and have 100% free public servers run by anyone and everyone. Use a copy of Gamespy Lite with the game to organize the servers. Just make sure the server has a linux version and boom, you have plenty of servers (every body knows linux geeks like to run game servers).

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There's a fine line between free speech and slander. Free speech (in the U.S. anyway) doesn't mean that you can say anything you want. There are restrictions

Whilest its true that you cannot yell fire in a public place to create mass hysteria or *PURPOSEFULLY* give out false information about a person or company, you can still use microsoft.org to tell MS to go fuck itself and be covered under the first amendment. What we are talking about here is exactly free speech. Free speech has a lot to do with telling some government or business what their problem is and that you don't like them. Thats the problem with ICANN and WIPO, no garaunteed protection of free speech, only your corporate money. Its rather scary that mattradio.com could take away my mattradio.org (which I am fully using) just because they registered theirs before me and probably have a bit more money than me.. thank god i get free legal counsel... (note, mattradio.com guys kick ass and are not trying anything against me, just an example). Sometimes you just can't find a shovel big enough to PANG the WIPOs face.

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they just dont have a good reference to find out. I know when I was brand new to Linux, the only troubles I had were finding the damn files. If there was some good reference (and I mean a web page, not one of the thousands of books... free as in speaking with BEER. yes it happens) then newbies would be much welcome. I know my problem with windows is the INSANE amount of crap I must rummage through just to get to one thing, when a simple cd /etc/ and vi fstab would get the job done in one hundredth of the time. Windows didnt revolutionize anything, it just made everything and everyone feel stupid.

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So CmdrTaco, you really think that GW is going to be the worse candidate?

YES!!!!

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various tanks of explosives/gas.

Use your head.
P-R-O-P-A-N-E.
Used everyday for barbeques all over America.


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Low to medium stress situations. Hmm.. Here's and idea: lets make the police the most trained people in the world. You have to go through seal training, give it really high pay, and make them specialized. Put Richard Machinko in charge too. A> No worries about terrorism response on american soil and B>no more police that cant handle the 'stressful' situations. Shit, if my it had been my world, the police woulda joined in the protests at the WTO and in Philly.

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When it comes to freedom, maybe I'm alone here, but if destructing private property and blowing up some shit is gonna preserve it for people and not corporations, I say just fucking do it. We've become lazy and brainwashed by the media and those in power. I'm a rational human being and I'm not saying don't try to compromise, but there is a point at which, whether you wish to admit or not, violence is the last stand for our freedom. Now, as for the WTO, Seattle PD should not have arrested 98% of the people. Police forces need restructuring. Train specialists for riots to target only the violent ones, and I know they're doing this, but it needs to be done better. Its the only way our rights can be preserved without mass violence from a poorly trained, easily provoked police force.

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Exactly! Check out Bruce Sterling's short story called: Our Neural Chernobyl. It is in the book called Globalhead, now available in cheapass paperback for under $10. Very worthwhile read.

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